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18jun2024

A texts in English and other languages that use Latin symbols look more "stable" and "regular" than texts in Russian and other Slavic languages that use Cyrillic fonts. But even Cyrillic texts are much more regular and better shaped than Greek texts.

A larger book market, more Latin fonts, more competition produces better glyphs and gives us better-looking texts for Latin. The Russian market has been smaller, younger, and over-centralised for the most of its history. Greek – much smaller.

INPUT fonts - it looks like a good alternative for IBM Plex Mono

24apr2024

One of the best explanations of what embedding is and how vector search works.

"No one buys books" it an essay on how the modern book market works. It looks similar to venture: only a small part of the titles actually sales, but most – not.

15mar2024

For now, it's positioned for story-writing, but from my perspective, it's a good alternative for AI-text-based adventures. Most people use it for gaming, not to write. It's like an open-world RPG with endless variability.

For the nearest feature, we will see how this model works in "general" gaming. It will be an interesting time.

04mar2024

FastUI it's easy way to create the admin page for a small script. Looks like the Django Admin for FastAPI applications.

In the abstract, FastUI is like the opposite of GraphQL but with the same goal — GraphQL lets frontend developers extend an application without any new backend development; FastUI lets backend developers extend an application without any new frontend development

3mar2024

Ente alternative photo hosting. Still a long way from Apple Photo, but cross-platform, privacy-centric and with a clear business model